NDWiki talk:Building plans

First steps - proposal

1. Move personal stuff (who owns what) to personal pages. Such information can be confusing for external viewers.
2. A list of coding preferences for this wiki, special templates, categories should be in the Help: namespace, with links from this page and start page.
3. I don't think we need demo pages. We need one good page (article in WP lingo) in each area that we can make copies from and adopt.

/Mike 19:19, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

3. was exactly what I meant when I wrote demo page... :-)

I notised the missing help page, "Press help if you don't know how to start an article" and then got an empty edit page for the help page. that's humor!

Gandalf 22:08, 20 October 2008 (UTC)

Classified pages

There is a way of classify pages by preventing a whole namespace from external view. Should I create a new namespace or should I do it on the NDWiki: namespace (where this page is located)? Mike 00:25, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Good to know it can be done, but is there a need? Can't we leave this page publicly available?Gandalf 13:06, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

Hardware description of cards

Could we change from 3005 to 3006, 3015, 3018 or 3019 since we have pictures on them? /Mike 13:08, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

Of course, that number was just picked because it was a simple card to describe. Compared to the floppy card or the CPU, the ram card has very few options. Same thing goes for the instruction. Gandalf 16:19, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

So, can we pick one? I think a picture is needed to complete the article. /Mike 23:37, 14 November 2008 (UTC)

In what documents are 3104 and 3005 described? I only find switches and LED indicators in Norsk Data Document ND–06.015 ND-100 FUNCTIONAL DESCRIPTION . /Mike 14:02, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

In that document, in the drawings and hands on hardware. Switches and LEDs is a good start, learn to crawl before walking. I basically picked those cards because a RAM card is the simplest card I could imagine and I have a 3104 just 2 meters away. Gandalf 14:32, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

Yes, that's good and useful if you know what a 3104 or 3005 is. But is there any other document describing what the cards do? /Mike 15:25, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

I think that ND-100 functional description have some info. I guess that there is some other info out there but I don't know of it, haven't searched for it. I don't have the drawings in front of me but I think that the memory card is covered in the print set. Gandalf 18:18, 13 February 2009 (UTC)

guideline for articles

Should we have some general guideline for articles? I think we already follow these "rules":

1. The ND paper documentation is the main guide:
   1. We use the same terms as in the documentation.
   2. We follow (as far as reasonable) the same structure as in the documentation.
2. Wikipedia has a familiar look:
   1. Readers (and editors) of Wikipedia should feel familiar with the look and functions.
   2. What you can do on Wikipedia, you should also be able to do here (except anonymous edit).
   3. What you can't do on Wikipedia, can be possible here.

Some text describing the each "rule" is needed. /Mike 08:13, 6 April 2009 (UTC)